Michelin Launches its New Anakee Wild Dual-Sport Tire

Michelin has announced the launch of its newest motorcycle tire — Michelin Anakee Wild — in markets around the world. The Anakee Wild is a knobby-style radial tire intended for larger adventure bikes that travel both on- and off-road.

Initially the tire will launch with four radial sizes, including those equipping what Michelin considers the “flagship” bike in this category, the BMW R1200GS. Additional sizes will enter the market during the year, thus covering most of the adventure bikes available.

Michelin Anakee Wild Sizes

The new Anakee Wild is aimed at riders who want to break away from paved roads and fully exploit the potential of bikes designed for roads or the most uneven, sandy, stony and muddy tracks. The tire was designed to adapt to all terrain types and situations, as well as the most varied climates. The mission of the development engineers was to combine three performance characteristics: on-road stability and comfort; resistance to overheating and wear; and increased wet-road and off-road traction.

Michelin Anakee Wild dual sport tires are packed with technology.

The new Michelin Anakee Wild achieves these goals through the new tread composition, optimized tread depth and the innovative design of the tread blocks, which was inspired by those used on Michelin Desert Tires that won the Paris-Dakar Rally 33 times. Additionally, the tire is the first radial made available on four different sizes of knobby tires.

Understanding the wide range of uses in the adventure-touring segment throughout the world enabled Michelin to design its tire ranges, which now include the new Anakee Wild. As a result, an adventure bike can now be fitted with three different Michelin tires, each adapted to a specific consumer use.

Michelin now offers a complete line of tires for all types of Adventure Touring.

These might be a contender for my V-Strom once I wear out its current set of (almost new) Shinko 705s. I’m running the newer Shinko 805’s on my DR650 and hate to say it but I’m not impressed at all. These definitely look better.

Plenty of current big adventure bikes are as good or better on pavement than the GS. Both the KTM 1290 and 1190R are by far better on and off road. Might be a new tire, but that’s an outdated remark. Those “three performance characteristics” are largely designed for on road, however, it will still give those spotless GS’s parked at cafes and hotels a more “wild” look.

I know a bunch of dudes that just started using these and its getting a lot of good reviews. They should be available for more bikes, more sizes, I assume as they were being and are still being tested; I assume you’ll see production increase as word gets out. Im not involved in any Tire company…Im a GS Giant. If you haven’t touched them, road with them yet; or, at least talked with someone who has…its merely speculation and conjecture. Lance Gines, Dennis Godwin, Lance Thomas, Shawn Thomas, and I could go on…..